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# אָנָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H577

**ah** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/577/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָֽנָּ֫א: interj. ah, now! we beseech thee! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/577/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (from אָהּ and נָא, q.v.) a strong part. of entreaty, ah, now! I (or we) beseech thee! often sq. an imper.; Gn 50:17 (to Joseph) אָנָּא שָׂא נָא וג׳ Ah, now! forgive, we pray, etc., Ex 32:31 (to God); elsewhere always sq. י׳ or אֲדֹנָי ψ 118:25(×2) Ne 1:5, 11 Dn 9:4. Written אָֽנָּ֫ה 2 K 20:3 (= Is 38:3) Jon 1:14; 4:2 ψ 116:4, 16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: please! (13).

## In the verses

[Psalms 118:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.25/#tree)

אָנָּ֣א יְ֭הוָה הוֹשִׁ֘יעָ֥ה נָּ֑א אָֽנָּ֥א יְ֝הוָ֗ה הַצְלִ֘יחָ֥ה נָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* please! O.Yahweh save please please! O.Yahweh grant success please

*JPS 1917:* We beseech Thee, O LORD, save now! We beseech Thee, O LORD, make us now to prosper!

[Psalms 116:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.4/#tree)

וּבְשֵֽׁם־יְהוָ֥ה אֶקְרָ֑א אָנָּ֥ה יְ֝הוָ֗ה מַלְּטָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and on the.name of.Yahweh I.called please! O.Yahweh deliver life my

*JPS 1917:* But I called upon the name of the LORD: 'I beseech thee, O LORD, deliver my soul.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/577.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/577/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).